Improvement in stalk-cutters



C. H. GAYLUBD & E. M. AYERS.

Stalk-Butter.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE CHARLES H. GAYLQRD AND EDWARD M. AYERS, OF OSCEOLA, ARKANSAS.

lMPROVEMENT IN STALK-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l66,200, dated August 3, 1875; application filed May 8, 1875. V

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES H. GAY- LORD and EDWARD M. AYERs, of Osceola, in the county of Mississippi and State of Arkan- -sas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton, Corn, and other mon plow, and intended to be operated by horse-power, the same as the ordinary plow,

only being drawn over the ground, and operating to cut the stalks as they stand in the field just beneath or at the surface of the ground.

1n the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of our invention and Fig. 2, a plan view of the cutting portion, with the beam and handles removed.

A is the cutting-blade, made to ride just under the surface of the ground, resting on the points a a, which project below the other cutting-edge, A, and made to extend sidewise on a horizontal plane to any sufficient dis tance. This blade is attached at the front portion to a bar or land-side, B, which extends some distance rearward. The rear lower end b of this bar B is made sharp, and projects a little below the straight edge b. C is the standard by which the parts A B are attached to an ordinary plow-beam, D, provided with handles 1).

The operation of our invention is as follows: As the instrument is drawn over the ground the sharp point I) penetrates into the ground and holds the device in place. The sharp cutting-edge of the blade A coming against the stalks as they stand, they are out off by a drawing out close to the surface under the ground, as is apparent.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The stalk-cutter composed of cutting-blade A, placed and secured in a nearly flat or sli gh tly -inclined position ,constru cted or formed with curved sharp cutting-edge A and projecting points a a, upon which it rests, landside B, formed with a rear projecting sharp point, I); standard C, and ordinary plow-beam and handles D D, as and for the purposes described.

lu testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 1st day of May, 1875.

CHARLES H. GAYLORD. EDWARD M. AYERS.

Witnesses:

J. W. CLAPP, Jr., L. ROUSSAU. 

